By Justin Mikulka In over their heads with debt, U.S. shale oil and gas firms are now moving from a boom in fracking to a boom in bankruptcies. This trend of failing finances has the potential for the U.S. public, both at the state and federal levels, to be left on the hook for paying […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will release several new rules in the coming weeks, many of which will relax regulations meant to protect the environment from industrial pollution. In a gift to the coal industry, the EPA will reverse course on regulations meant to reduce the amount of toxic heavy metals that leach into […]
An oil spill in the endangered Ganges river dolphin breeding grounds located in southeast Bangladesh has been called a “major disaster” by environmentalists, reports Agence-France Presse (AFP). Ganges River dolphins are in crisis after a tanker carrying 1,200 tonnes of diesel collided with another ship on the Karnaphuli river near Chittagong port, #Bangladesh Friday and […]
The Dutch inventor behind the Ocean Cleanup is now looking to stop plastic pollution at the source. On Saturday, 25-year-old Boyan Slat unveiled the “Interceptor”: a floating, solar-powered device designed to scoop plastic out of rivers, The Associated Press reported. “We need to close the tap, which means preventing more plastic from reaching the ocean […]
Dolphins have returned to the Potomac River and are even giving birth there, The Smithsonian reported. The body of water that George Washington once called “the nation’s river” used to host dolphins in the 1800s, but it had gotten so heavily polluted by the 1960s that wildlife struggled to survive and President Lyndon Johnson called […]
The Trump administration repealed the 2015 Clean Water Rule rule Thursday, a rule intended to protect 60 percent of the nation’s waterways from pollution, The New York Times reported. At stake is the definition of “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act. The Obama-era rule expanded that definition from larger bodies of […]
By Johnny Wood The Ganges is a lifeline for the people of India, spiritually and economically. On its journey from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal, it supports fishermen, farmers and an abundance of wildlife. The river and its tributaries touch the lives of roughly 500 million people. But having flowed for millennia, today […]
The climate crisis looms large for young people. We see teenagers like Greta Thunberg inspiring kids around the world to take part in political activism. Then, there are solution-seekers like Fionn Ferreira, an 18 year-old Irish wunderkind, who won the grand prize at the 2019 Google Science Fair for creating a method to remove microplastics […]
By Alisa Opar For Chinook salmon, the urge to return home and spawn isn’t just strong — it’s imperative. And for the first time in more than 65 years, at least 23 fish that migrated as juveniles from California’s San Joaquin River and into the Pacific Ocean have heeded that call and returned as adults […]
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